Hello Kitty, Hello Shame

Thai police departments have been having a problem with officers violating minor rules such as littering and parking in prohibited areas. The departments have been reluctant to fire the officers but efforts to discipline them have proven ineffective.

In the face of this, they've decided to attack the machismo of the officers by forcing them to wear Hello Kitty armbands as a mark of disciplinary shame. I have no idea if this will work about one only needs to ask dread Cthulhu about the power of the kitty.

Unstructured Cthulhu

I have long been a fan of the Cthulhu Mythos of H.P Lovecraft. Lovecraft posited a universe that was fundamentally inimical and, for the most part, incomprehensible to humanity and which was populated by a host of sanity-warping entities. His most famous story is The Call of Cthulhu which documents the existence and discovery of a gigantic, monsterous entity known as Cthulhu. Many consider it a classic of the genre and a perfect representation of Lovecraft's cosmology.

That being the case, I suspect that even Lovecraft never anticipated that his writings would ultimately lead to the horror that is The Tales of the Plush Cthulhu.